Socrates’ Rhetorical Strategy in Plato’s Apology

Apology as Crisis Communication Strategy-Importance of Cultural Context

One of the frequently used strategies in crisis management, i.e. crisis communication used by organizations affected by crisis is public apology for the crisis. Usually it is lightly considered as a strategy which automatically gives results and reduces the effects of crisis, which is far from true. The effectiveness of public apology depends on an entire series of factors such as the nature of...

Apology

Misunderstanding Socrates

THE NOTION OF A Socratic PHILOSOPHY, as distinct from what is commonly known as Platonism, has its origins in the work of Gregory Vlastos1 and continues today through the scholars he has influenced.2 The Socratic movement in Plato studies maintains that one can identify in certain Platonic dialogues a philosophical method and a collection of philosophical theses which may properly be attributed...

the reading of socrates works according to the tragedy of aeschylus (review on apology)

the current study aims to examine the relationship of socrates with classic tragedy and assess these two cases. the rise of poetic tragedy in the form of dramas of “aeschylus” was accompanied with periods of enhancement of socrates. socrates got familiar with the dramas of aeschylus in his youth in athen. being inspired by the religious content of tragedy based on fate, justice and righteousnes...

The First Supper Postmodern Irony as Subversive Rhetorical Strategy

In this essay, the use of postmodern rhetorical irony as a subversive strategy is explored. In particular, Susan Dorothea White's painting, The First Supper, is analyzed as a subversive, postmodern ironic reading of Leonardo da Vinci's famed work, The Last Supper. This analysis suggests that subversive irony assumes distinctive and complex technical and theoretical characteristics, most relevan...